PoshGremlin

A PowerShell binary module (.dll) to expose Gremlin.NET via a PowerShell Cmdlet. This project uses dnMerge, a lightweight .NET assembly dependency merger, to merge multiple .NET reference assemblies into a single DLL (PowerShell binary module).

Installation

Copy and Paste the following command to install this package using PowerShellGet:

Install-Module -Name PoshGremlin

Example: Gremlin and Azure CosmosDB

Import Module

Import-Module PoshGremlin

Define variables

$hostname = "cosmos-ENDPOINT.gremlin.cosmos.azure.com"
$authKey = ConvertTo-SecureString -AsPlainText -Force -String 'COSMOSDB-KEY'
$database = "DBNAME"
$collection = 'GRAPHCOLLECTION' 
$Credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential "/dbs/$database/colls/$collection", $authKey

$gremlinParames = @{
    Hostname = $hostname
    Credential = $credential
}

Run Basic Gremlin query

"g.V().has('label','directoryrole')" | Invoke-Gremlin @gremlinParams | convertTo-Json -Depth 10 

Credits

• https://github.com/jasonchester/PSGremlin
• https://github.com/CCob/dnMerge
• https://github.com/apache/tinkerpop/tree/master/gremlin-dotnet

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/developer/module/how-to-write-a-powershell-binary-module?view=powershell-7.2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/developer/cmdlet/cmdlet-overview?view=powershell-7.2
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/azure-samples/azure-cosmos-db-graph-gremlindotnet-getting-started/azure-cosmos-db-graph-gremlindotnet-getting-started/